Russian prosecutors have begun considering whether media coverage of the unexpected friendship between a male tiger and goat at a safari park in the country's far east counts as gay propaganda. Novosibirsk lawyer Alexei Krestyanov complained to the prosecutor general last month that information about the animals living together could harm children by provoking "interest in non-traditional sexual relations".

"I think the positive coverage of this topic is nothing less than interference in the personal lives of minors, which is what hidden propaganda is, and public, active imposition of homosexuality", Krestyanov wrote. The prosecutor's office in the Primorsky region, which borders China and North Korea, has said it has begun checking Krestyanov's allegations.